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Finding Your Life Purpose and Meaning in Today's World
By Aion Farvahar   

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“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, 
and use it for a purpose greater than myself.” 
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hi, this is Aion Farvahar. I am glad you are here.
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Our today’s presentation provides ideas focused on life purpose and meaning. These ideas may seem to be philosophical at first but I consider them practical because they helped me personally to find my life purpose and meaning. I hope you too can relate to these ideas and consider them in your quest for purpose and meaning of your life. I believe we all came to this world with a purpose, a dharma or soul contract. So, you need find that purpose and have a guiding vision for it, a guiding vision that can inspire you, motivate you, and bring out the best in you, and above all make you aware of who you’re born to be and what you meant to do in this life. 

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Now, I invite you to notice the part of you that brought you here, listening to these words. This part of you knows more about you and your destiny than your own conscious self. It wants you to care about your life and its greater purpose and meaning. This part of you knows that without a greater purpose, you won’t be able to manifest the most meaningful life possible in your destiny. You can view this part as your higher mind, your heart, your gut, or your soul from spiritual dimension of your being. Take a moment to notice the presence of this part in you, acknowledge its good intention for you keeping you curious about life and your purpose for coming to this world.

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Finding purpose and meaning in today’s world
We humans are sentient and intelligent beings. We want to understand why we do things and tend to attach meaning to everything we experience. So, desire for purpose and meaning in life is a part of our nature.  Our greater ancestors honored this desire and brought meaning and purpose to their lives through their deep connection to Nature, devotion to their community, and respect for spirituality, and their cultural heritage and rituals.  

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Back then, it was easier to find purpose and meaning because we lived closer to Nature and had a stronger connection to our community and spiritual presence felt around us. These made our lives holistic and more meaningful, because we viewed ourselves as a part of these collectives rather than as individuals. Even finding our role and purpose in different stages of our life was done with outmost respect and celebration through sacred rituals and ceremonies in Nature, such as Vision Quest and Rites of Passage. Back then, life was sacred, colorful, and uplifting through spirituality, and everyone had a place in the world and a guiding vision to live by.   

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Unfortunately, you and I now live in technologically-dominated world, with most of us no longer having direct access to Nature or a supporting community to help us find our place in the world or guiding vision in life. Many of us have either lost our connection to spirituality or left with a belief system that may not be as life-reaffirming as we need. Our human connections to healing energies of Nature, community, and spirituality are mostly replaced by tangles of fiber optics plugging us to a virtual world that is far away from life-affirming energies we need. You and I are now left on our own devices, trying to search for purpose and meaning in a hyper-dimensional maze of distractions. Who is going to show us the way back to inner peace, purpose and meaning again. We do! But how?  

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Search for a fulfilled and complete life 
In our unique ways, we all desire to have a fulfilled and complete life. But, what is a fulfilled and complete life? To me, a truly fulfilled and complete life is one that is lived with a sense of inner peace, purpose, and meaning. 
- Inner Peace is about self realization and being aware of our thoughts and emotions, and at peace with ourselves and others. 
- Purpose is about having a mission or a sense of direction in life and to know what we are here to do in this world. 
- Meaning is about knowing the meaning of our life as a whole and why we should live life in a way that is most meaningful even to its very end. 

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Our desire for inner peace, purpose and meaning goes back to the time of our greater ancestors. Back then, Nature gave us inner peace, serving our community gave us purpose, and our deep connection to spirituality made our lives sacred and meaningful. Unfortunately now, most of us have lost these connections and live life as individuals. Emotional numbness has replaced inner peace, careers have become life purpose, and hedonism has challenged the need for meaning. We need to find a way to change things, to reconnect to our life-inspiring roots, and to renew our connections to Nature, Community, and Spirituality. 

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How to find your purpose and meaning in life 
The purpose of life is something personal and about what we believe we must pursue in life. But, the meaning of life is more collective and has to do with whether our life had a greater value beyond personal pursuit of our ideals. This is an important point because we want to live a life that holds its meaning even at the point of its completion, when we leave this world behind. 

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In this section, we focus on a contemplative process that, when done with full intention, helps you find your purpose and guiding vision in life. This process can be viewed as an ontological imagination or thought experiment in search of insights. You can even call it an ontological vision quest with your higher mind and imagination. If possible, consider following this process as a part of a vision quest in Nature. Although, this may not be possible for some of us now living in large cities. 

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Find some quite time alone by yourself, either in Nature or somewhere cozy you feel most comfortable doing contemplation and imagination. Have a note book and pen handy, so you can write the insights you receive during these contemplations as you notice them. 
- Contemplate and imagine a hypothetical ideal world, a world you wished you could live in forever. 
- Look for one ideal quality of this world that is most appealing, making this world most ideal to you.
- See if you can find that ideal quality in today’s real world, more specifically in the world you live. 
- Notice the gap in that ideal quality comparing its presence in your ideal world and the real world. 
- Contemplate on various ways to take steps to close that gap by promoting that ideal quality in the real world.
- Contemplate on how you can best align your career or personal interest to one of these ways to promote this ideal quality in the real world.  

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Let’s consider this process in my case as an example. To me, an ideal world is a world, where all humans can discover and actualize their unique gift and potentiality in life or simply to become who they are born to be in life. So, the ideal quality in this world is about realization of our true potentialities and actualizing them to fulfill our true destiny. Believing in this ideal quality has shaped my guiding vision in life, and helped me align my work toward its recognition by being a motivator. This gives my life a sense of purpose and meaning because I do what I believe in and I see greater meaning in what I do. 

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You too, can use this process to find your guiding vision in life with your highest intentions. A guiding vision that makes you see your life with new perspective, not as what it has been until now but rather as what it can become. A guiding vision that does not tell you “who you are” but rather “who you are born to be”.  A vision that invites you to bring your unique gift to the world whether it is your wisdom, creativity, art, poetry, care or compassion, all of which are much needed in our today’s world. 


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Closing Thoughts
In closing, I hope you have found the ideas presented here inspiring. I want to leave you with the most important insight I shared in this presentation, which is to realize that you are not alone in this journey of life. There is a part of you that knows your true destiny and wants to bring out the best in you. If you open your heart to this part with your purest intentions, you gain access to its clairvoyance cues and insights trying to guide you in life through intuition and imagination. Also, realize that we are all a part of human community in this world, sharing this fragment of eternity together that we call life. The world we live in today may not be as life-promoting as it could have been, but that can change if we all choose to bring our gifts to it, and through that, transform ourselves to our best of version of being.     

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